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Channel 19

Roundup: Strange bedfellows, scale-house burger, Android barker

Legislation can make for odd bedfellows among supporters, Wendy Parker orders a cheeseburger — at the wrong drive-through, and Mack Trucks’ Bulldog magazine gets new digital distribution.

May 9, 2013

Business

Einstein warned us about this

“I think riding in a big truck for a day should be part of every driver’s education class given. These kids need to have the view I do for a day…”

March 10, 2013

Business

Getloaded introduces e-mail alerts

A new feature from Getloaded.com enables load searches to be saved and set up to email operators when new loads are posted.

February 27, 2013

Channel 19

Thursday roundup: CB vitality, more highway heroes

There is still no substitute for what the CB does well, illustrated by a recent coordinated rolling roadblock that resulted in an abducted child’s rescue.

January 17, 2013

Channel 19

Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 2

Counting down the memories — May-August 2012 on the Channel 19 blog, when things heated up in more ways than three.

December 29, 2012

Channel 19

Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 1

Counting down the memories, of a fashion — if Channel 19 was all you read from January-April 2012, you couldn’t be criticized for thinking trucking was a wonderfully strange place to be.

December 27, 2012

Channel 19

Mobile trends: Has your smartphone replaced your GPS?

Survey results from uShip’s annual mobile technology survey showed a majority of operators either relying on their smartphones for navigation more than their GPS units or recognizing that potential.

November 12, 2012

Business

Computing the owner-operator business — Part 2

Part 2 of this series features explores the landscape for web-based models for trucking management software for small fleets and independents — and the mobile integration on the way.

September 21, 2012

Channel 19

CSA smackdown, hot trucks and the ultimate disincentive

The Channel 19 Monday roundup: The CSA House hearing last week, a truck show upcoming in Tennessee, and new driver-disqualification powers across the pond.

September 17, 2012

Channel 19

Cell-phone jamming technology in your cab?

Much has been made of the inability and/or difficulty of state enforcement of the Department of Transportation’s nationwide ban on handheld cellphone use behind the wheel. Last I’ve written about it you can find here and here. In the story at the former of those links, reader Martin GrosecIose put forward the notion that combating […]

July 13, 2012

Channel 19

Modest proposal: Ban all motorized transport already!

Buddy Wenners’ December 2011 modest proposal for the Department of Transportation to dispense with all the rigmarole and “ban truck driving” — penned in response to news of the handheld cell ban and otherwise the blizzard of new regs coming down the pike — yesterday got some kudos from commenter Zach Bell. It’d be exciting, […]

June 21, 2012

Channel 19

Truckers to DOT: ‘Smartphones are winning’

Smartphones are whipping the Department of Transportation in the battle for the attention of the motoring public, wrote Whitesboro, Texas-based Pennco Transportation driver Martin Groseclose on Overdrive’s Facebook page, in response to last week’s news of the DOT’s strategy for dealing with the epidemic of four-wheeler distracted driving. If you missed said news, check it […]

June 12, 2012